There are concerns the mangled transcripts could lead to overturned criminal convictions, and 10 of Kochanski’s cases are reportedly being appealed, including one of a man convicted of hiring a hit man to murder a witness against him.

Kochanski’s alleged actions are reminiscent of the scene in Stanley Kubrick’s horror film The Shining where Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) repeatedly types: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”